One of my top priorities as UCSF’s new vice chancellor for Research is to communicate with you about our research activities as effectively and efficiently as possible. I will be working with my communications team in the Office of Research to implement a comprehensive communications plan. Part of this will be a regular, high-value email newsletter like ReSearch ReSource.

If you have ideas for ReSearch ReSource or communications strategies more broadly, please email me and my communications team at [email protected].

The full and final report of the UCSF Task Force on Equity & Anti-Racism in Research is now available. As written in the July 2022 installment of Expresso, this important report includes the four key recommendations that UCSF will adopt now: 1) establish a system of accountability on anti-racism and equity for the UCSF research enterprise, 2) promote and support UCSF anti-racism scholarship, 3) create and support a more diverse UCSF research workforce, and 4) promote and support community-engaged research. Associate Vice Chancellor for Research – Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti Racism Tung Nguyen invites the UCSF community to read the entire report and provide feedback via this online form.

Tung Nguyen, MD was named as the inaugural associate vice chancellor for Research – Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (AVC Research – IDEA). This inaugural leadership role is designed to ensure that IDEA are embedded throughout the UCSF research enterprise toward developing an environment that proactively addresses racism and all aspects of inequity and discrimination.

Reporting to Vice Chancellor for Research Harold R. Collard with a dotted line to Chief Diversity Officer Renée Navarro, Dr. Nguyen will work closely with the research deans in the schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy as well as the Graduate Division to build on the 2021 recommendations made by the Office of Research Task Force on Equity and Anti-Racism in Research. more >>

In 2022, Jim Kiriakis, executive director of UCSF Industry Contracts, and his colleagues reported a significant accomplishment of 14 new master agreements (view list in Box) that facilitate partnerships with industry. Sponsors include Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly and Company, and Stryker Corporation. These master agreements are a time-saving process innovation that will improve clinical trial and basic research activation efficiency. more>>

We are pleased to announce that, thanks to funding from the UCSF Library, UCSF is now an institutional member of the Qualitative Data Repository. The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) is a dedicated archive for storing and sharing data (and accompanying documentation) that is generated or collected through qualitative and mixed-method research in the social sciences and related disciplines. UCSF researchers can use QDR to discover qualitative data for secondary research, and to share their own research data to satisfy publisher and funder data sharing requirements, including the new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy.